Re: Is it my radio, or what???????

["Sonny M. Ashimori" <sonny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2/12/97, M Clinton wrote:
>I'm having sort of a dilema here at my location in Northern Wisconsin.I
>have WWV tuned in,on 5000khz,but IT'S not hardly
>audible!!!!!!!!!!2500Khz is booming in,10000khz nothing.........what
>gives?When stuff like this happens I wonder whats going on.Other
>stations seem to be coming in decently on 60 meteres,but where the heck
>is WWV.This is occuring at 0230 UTC.........Can ANYONE out there verify
>the same situation,PLEASE..........TOM MESSER......PLEASE!!!!!!

I figure you live about 600 miles from WWV in Colorado. I live 500 km from
JJY (2.5/5/8/10/15 MHz) in Tokyo, and often on winter nights especially
when the solar activity is low (like now) even 5000 kHz is too high to be
audible in my area. At such times of course I can't hear anything on 8000
kHz, and on 10000 and 15000 kHz I only hear foreign time signals (like
WWV, WWVH...). Maybe that's what happened. You live too far from the
transmitter to catch the direct signal, and you live too near to receive
the reflection via the ionosphere. The other 60 mb stations you heard must
be located much farther from you than WWV.

Hope this helps.

Sonny

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